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The essays in this volume vary in subject from trends in higher education to the history of the media in presidential politics, from the radical left in San Francisco to the utopian ego driving information technology, and from the intellectual biographies of James Agee and Richard Hofstadter to Christopher Hitchens and C. Wright Mills. No one theme or person or subject dominates. Although the essays are in spirit critical, they do not advance the interests of any party or group or milieu.

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John Summers is one of those guys whose essays display such a wide range of knowledge that upon reading them you can't help feeling a touch inadequate and stupid, unless you're Christopher Hitchens or, better yet, someone like Christopher Hitchens who's still alive and can read. This book serves up smart essays on everything from Chomsky and Richard Hofstadter to a marvelous piece on James Agee an an incredibly well-researched look into the history of presidential sex scandals and how the media did (or didn't) cover them. (Grover Cleveland, fornicator: who knew?) The end of the book finishes with a few pieces on C. Wright Mills, and I probably would have enjoyed them more if I'd read any of his works, but shame on me for that, not Summers.